New-York tribune. [volume] (New York [N.Y.]) 1866-1924, 1887-08-21
CATTLE From TIE SOUTHWEST.
HEAVY SHIPMENTS DUE TO DROUTH.
FARMERS WITHOUT CORN OR GRASS TO fATTkN
STOCK AS USUAL THROUGH THE WINTER
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srocv A usrAL THROUGH THE WINTER
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cy,c,oo. Aur. 2o.-A Times dispatch from Topeka,
Kansas SAYS that there will be shipped from CaldWen
this season 10000 head Of three and four year-old
steers and from Hunnewell about the same amount
These are the principal shipping points for stock from
tbe Indian Territory and the 100000 head represen
the surplus that must be marketed this season
The drouth which has been severe throughout this
State has been equally severe in the Territory Large
streams which have before failed have this season
gone dry and the grass burned up and despite the low
nrices the stock must 20 TO market The shipping OF
this grass fed stock began about two weeks ago ana VIII
continue until the middle OF October when IL VIII cease
until next year. II is impossible to get at the data az 10
the amount OF live stock feeding In the Territory as
fuctuates from time to time The Usage Janus lro"i
which the most of this stock shppedare held on leases
by cattle syndicates who pay l2 cents an acre per
annum for the grazing privileges These leaseholds are
fenced off In tracts varying from 10000 to 100000
acres which stocked with young cattle from the ran
Handle and Texas These are grass fad Tor coupe vi
years and then marketed. The Rock Island road "hc
will reach Caldwell or Wednesday of next week. VIII
secure its share OF this business, having already large
engagements and it will direct over its new extension
To Chicago neutral strip three miles in width runs
along the border of the Territory and the Kansas STATE
line and in this the large stock yards are established
and the cattle put board the cars for their eastward
journey
The corn belt of Kansas is referred 20 as strip IOo
miles in width running from Emporia on the East
through TO Saline and Larned the West or course
large quantities are raised outside of this strip but there
the Weld is in excess OF other localities and the crop
more certain In the section mentioned the larger por
ton of the cornfed stock fatened and the industry
of adding marketable flesh 10 cattle obtains large pro-
portions There will be a" setback" this year owing
to partial failure OF the corn crop The shipping sea.
son for stock extends from about Decruoer
following May and Tor the season OF loSo9' at
least 5000 carloads, 10000 head were snlpptu
out of the southern and southwestern tier OF counties,
lending far west Seward County. IneIe VIII NOT
be much growth Of this business this season Larry
In the year July the corn crop was IN excel
lent condition and promised bountiful harvest linen
came the hot winds the dronth, STORYTELLING 1t up
until by August 10 greater proportion pi u was WORTH
for any purpose and now stands III the cds burned
mn and a total loss This is not true of all corn as In
many favored localities there is an average yleld p
"a whole less than hair crop Will pe harvested
Where ii been totally burned ont the farmers could
have saved all OF ii "rougness, IA stalk fouuer IL
locally termed and this II cut and shocked NJ the fehI
time would have fed aud fattened large amount OF i've
stock but with daily hopes that the dTOuth might ne
broken and needed rain come TO mature inc corn
the farmers let the opportunity slip 10 save any or
ton and the majority made thls mistake,
although large minority jumped into the nelds with all
available help and saved large amount or iced WHICH
will he utilized III fattening stock .
The of IL all Is. however tnat the Farmers re
in state OF great uncertainty. Judging from prom
local scarcity. they anticipate big advance III
corn, and will make no contracts with tue hNesncK
dealers old Wilson Naddnghan OF the hell
weeks all through the section spoken OF trying to place
thousa ia head his cattle, but 20 1dr without success
dealers generally find the same dilhculty u Is
probable. however, that later in the season when inc
measured their resources abOut 5oOOO htad Will DC
brought in aud fattened Tor the market